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Topic	How do you feel about minimaps in open-world games?
luigi13579 01/08/18 6:40:46 AM #30:	DevsBro posted... Sure, in an ideal world. In the real world, no compass marker results in hours of "UGH WHERE THE HELL IS IT" considering you can't ask the NPC to clarify. It's not that difficult to allow a player to ask NPCs where to go. Morrowind does it fairly successfully. In fact, NPCs in Morrowind sometimes mark the rough location of important places on your map. It's not as if you're left to just wander around (except in one or two instances where the directions are wrong, which are fixed with mods at least). There are various ways of directing players without having them blindly following a quest arrow. I can appreciate that some would rather do that, but I'd personally have a more organic system. <cite>luigi13579 posted [p:893637644] in How do you... [t:76171418]...</cite> <quote><cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote>Sure, in an ideal world. In the real world, no compass marker results in hours of "UGH WHERE THE HELL IS IT" considering you can't ask the NPC to clarify.</quote> It's not that difficult to allow a player to ask NPCs where to go. Morrowind does it fairly successfully. In fact, NPCs in Morrowind sometimes mark the rough location of important places on your map. It's not as if you're left to just wander around (except in one or two instances where the directions are wrong, which are fixed with mods at least). There are various ways of directing players without having them blindly following a quest arrow. I can appreciate that some would rather do that, but I'd personally have a more organic system.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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